How has the representation of women changed? Despite recent critical successes of films featuring female leads (The Hunger Games‚ Brave‚ Beasts of the Southern Wild) and the fact that women ages 12 and over are 51 percent of moviegoers‚ the study found that women on the big screen remain under-utilized. In film‚ female characters are on the rise–one-third of all characters in the top 100 grossing films of 2012 were women. However‚ the percentage of female protagonists in film has fallen from
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Imagine the day you finally emerge from your cocoon of comfort and commence what the future holds. Imagine that bewildering feeling‚ clouding over your mind as you realize how the setting is quite different from your reassuring atmosphere. Now‚ imagine the environment you are now in consists of people who find interest in the same area‚ but carry out the same task at a different level‚ in a different way. Well‚ in my case‚ band has been the one thing I would look forward doing since I first witnessed
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people in the world don’t know this name. The world knows him by his nickname‚ Mr. T. People know him by his role in Rocky III as Clubber Lang‚ but Tureaud wasn’t just a movie star. Tureaud was a military veteran‚ professional football player‚ and was apart of wrestling mania. As a small town boy‚ Lawrence Tureaud pushed through a tough childhood into a life of stardom and fame‚ and may have changed the world of entertainment forever. The childhood of Lawrence Tureaud (Mr. T) was eventful. He was born
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younger. Ever since I was little I was always playing them whether it was soccer‚ baseball‚ or golf. But no sport ever got to me more‚ then what football did. Football was by far my favorite sport and I still play it today. I like to think football changed my life for the better. I is a sport where I can get away from everything else and relieve some stress. Football also taught me discipline which is a great tool for a young kid. I hope to enjoy this sport for the rest of high school. My football
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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World. “President Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao Tse-tung were well aware that they were making history that day in 1972” (Macmillan‚ 2008) Margaret Macmillan’s book Nixon and Mao is a wonderful moment to moment portrayal of what had happened between the United States and China in “the week that changed the world”. The book not only captures the meeting between the two world leaders who were taking a giant leap in the diplomacy between these two nations but
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As a freshman on varsity soccer‚ I set my expectations high for myself. That’s why I was so disappointed with my soccer abilities when I was benched several games. So‚ I made myself work over the winter and summer to have some playing time on varsity. Every Sunday‚ my parents would go wash clothes at the laundromat and I would cross the street to my local YMCA and practice outside by myself. No matter what the weather was I’d be out there. I would set up tires in front of the goal and shoot through
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For this essay‚ I had to see how I had changed over the years of being in band and compare them to the years before I got in band. How band has influenced my life? There is a lot of things that band has influenced in my life; like no time to do anything during marching season‚ learning to hate buses‚ how to multitask‚ and getting to have more friends than what you started with. You learn how to be responsible and how to be on time for things. The saying that every band person needs to go by is ‘early
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I have performed in New York City‚ the Georgia Dome‚ Disney World‚ and Lucas Oil Stadium. I’ve been given the opportunity to work with distinguished individuals from around the country and invited to participate in select ensembles. But it has given me so much more than musical experiences. The discipline required
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How has electricity changed the world we live in since 2000? What is an invisible thing that is everywhere and is always there for our comfort? Electricity. It’s almost wherever you look. It usually can’t be seen and has been helping us since the 1840s. Starting with the invention of telegraph by Samuel Morse at around 1840‚ electricity started making our lives better and changing our lives dramatically. Going from telegraph‚ to telephone‚ to radio and to television. But how has this invisible
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rock history. During his career‚ he revolutionized the sound of rock‚ and changed it greatly. Hendrix was a major influence in music and with his beliefs. Jimi Hendrix was a positive influence on the world‚ and his music and views continue to inspire many people. Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle‚ Washington on November 27‚ 1942. Throughout his childhood‚ his family dealt with financial problems‚ and he was sometimes put in the care of friends and family. By the time he was nine‚ his parents had divorced
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